February 2013 Archives - Juan Alderete's PedalsAndEffects

And the winner of the Sovtek Fuzz Wars is…..watch the video to find out! I had so much fun shooting this video review. We really didn’t have any plans for what we wanted to do; Scott just showed with two Sovteks and I had my own Sovteks so Jonathan suggested to do a Sovtek...

This shootout is as nerdy as it gets. It starts with three bass players (Weezer’s Scott Shriner, Jonathan Hischke and yours truly) in a room, talking about gear when they realize there are enough Sovtek fuzzes in their possesion to do a Fuzz Wars. High Fives erupt. Sovtek fuzzes are legendary fuzz pedals made...

NAMM 2013 was fun this year. The key was not packing in too much in just two days. I went with Jonathan Hischke, and we covered the boutique pedal makers, a few bigger companies, and then bounced. There were some really exciting concepts and innovating sounds happening all over NAMM but we chose to...

Big Sir made a record last year called Before Gardens After Gardens and typically, bands follow up their records with remixes of their songs, sometimes done by others and other times, themselves. Lisa Papineau and I decided to do our own spin on a remix record but with a twist- we re-recorded some...

I wanted to let you all know I am hustling on all this NAMM 2013 video footage for PedalsAndEffects. We’re going to show what we saw plus what we didn’t get to see but heard about from other musicians. There’s a lot of excitement about what’s in store for the pedal world. It seems...